Rethinking classroom design to promote creativity and collaboration

Feb 17, 2017

Ed Source – Michael Collier

“One area that has remained relatively untouched by Silicon Valley’s famed “disruptive” ethos is the design of public school classrooms, which for the most part have remained essentially unchanged since the one-room schoolhouse. Especially at the high school level, classrooms still sport rows of desks, filled by students who are taught by a teacher in the front of the room. With rare exceptions, that’s the case even in schools in Silicon Valley, which has revolutionized thinking about office design and has moved toward a range of configurations, including open designs that are supposed to encourage collaboration and creative thought.”(more)